SmallPOX Cancelled The Small Press in Ottawa eXpo's page and directory. Find out more about our annual indie books convention. http://smallpox.htmlplanet.com

Extractions: SmallPOX2000 Cancelled Due to the lack of confirmed participating exhibitors by July 1, the third annual Small Press in Ottawa eXpo on July 29-30 has been cancelled. A heartfelt thanks goes out to everyone who has supported and helped promote this show over the years. The success of SmallPOX was a direct result of your efforts and enthusiasm. Please contact rob mclennan for information on the next Small Press book fair in Ottawa. There are no plans for a SmallPOX2001.

Smallpox Biosecurity > Home Gives experts the opportunity to debate on key issues such as combating terrorists and handling an outbreak. http://www.smallpoxbiosecurity.org/

CDC Smallpox | Smallpox Overview CDC overview of smallpox. Includes basic information on disease transmission, symptoms, and history. Part of the CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/overview/disease-facts.asp

Extractions: Search: Home See also What We Learn About Smallpox from Movies - Fact or Fiction Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is vaccination. The name smallpox There are two clinical forms of smallpox. Variola major is the severe and most common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever. There are four types of variola major smallpox: ordinary (the most frequent type, accounting for 90% or more of cases); modified (mild and occurring in previously vaccinated persons); flat; and hemorrhagic (both rare and very severe). Historically, variola major has an overall fatality rate of about 30%; however, flat and hemorrhagic smallpox usually are fatal. Variola minor is a less common presentation of smallpox, and a much less severe disease, with death rates historically of 1% or less.

Extractions: SPECIAL REPORT The hunt for al Qaeda Bin Laden's audio message, 2/03 Terror warning system Terror on tape ... War against terror ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) The nation's largest union of health care workers said Tuesday a smallpox vaccination plan being considered by the Bush administration would not do enough to protect such workers. Under the plan, the government would vaccinate millions of Americans who could come into contact with the disease in a bioterrorist attack. In the first round, the government would vaccinate 500,000 people with a high risk of exposure, including emergency room workers, infectious disease specialists and intensive care workers, according to an administration official. A second round of vaccinations would cover 7 million to 10 million more health workers, firefighters, police and first responders. The vaccine also would be made available to the public but only through clinical trials, and the government would not recommend that anyone besides health workers and first responders take the vaccine, the official said.

Extractions: Volume 6, 2000 Number 3 Number 2 Number 1 Volume 5, 1999 Number 6 Number 5 Number 4 Number 3 Number 2 Number 1 Volume 4, 1998 Number 4 Number 3 Number 2 Number 1 Volume 3, 1997 Number 4 Number 3 Number 2 Number 1 Volume 2, 1996 Number 4 Number 3 Number 2 Number 1 Volume 1, 1995 Number 4 Number 3 Number 2 Number 1 Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Smallpox is a viral disease unique to humans. To sustain itself, the virus must pass from person to person in a continuing chain of infection and is spread by inhalation of air droplets or aerosols. Twelve to 14 days after infection, the patient typically becomes febrile and has severe aching pains and prostration. Some 2 to 3 days later, a papular rash develops over the face and spreads to the extremities (

WHO Fact Sheet On Smallpox Pointers to information and activities about smallpox http://tmsyn.an.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

Extractions: Also available in: Spanish Prevention/Screening FDA Approves New Plasma-Derived Product to Treat Complications of Smallpox Vaccination (Food and Drug Administration) Information on Live Virus Vaccines and Vaccinia (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) List of Medications Contraindicating Receipt of Smallpox Vaccine (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) People Who Should NOT Get the Smallpox Vaccine (Unless They Are Exposed to Smallpox) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Extractions: E-MAIL DR. GUPTA Click here to submit a medical question to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, then watch CNN at 2:30 p.m. ET Saturday to see if it is answered. Editor's note: CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta answers medical questions submitted by e-mail on "Your Health," which airs at 2:30 p.m. EST on Saturdays. Questions and answers are posted on CNN.com after the show. This week, Dr. Gupta answers questions about smallpox that are frequently asked of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Q: Who has been vaccinated for smallpox? A: Although some medical and military personnel are still vaccinated, most Americans under 30 have not been vaccinated. The last routine vaccination was in 1972. It is not known whether those people vaccinated before 1972 still have immunity. However, it's believed that the risk of developing bad side-effects from the vaccine are lower in those who were once inoculated.

WHO Smallpox smallpox Preparedness in the event of a smallpox outbreak - Programme to facilitate Variola virus research - Information resources http://tmsyn.an.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Smallpox smallpox was once found throughout the world, causing illness and death wherever it occurred. smallpox was primarily a disease of children and young adults, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001356.htm

Extractions: @import url(/medlineplus/images/advanced.css); Skip navigation Other encyclopedia topics: A-Ag Ah-Ap Aq-Az B-Bk ... Z Contents of this page: Smallpox lesions Alternative names Return to top Variola - major and minor; Variola Definition Return to top Smallpox is a viral disease characterized by a skin rash and a high death rate. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Return to top Smallpox was once found throughout the world, causing illness and death wherever it occurred. Smallpox was primarily a disease of children and young adults, with family members often infecting each other. A massive program by the World Health Organization (WHO) eradicated all known smallpox viruses from the world in 1977, except for samples that were saved by various governments for research purposes. The vaccine was discontinued in the United States in 1972. In 1980, WHO recommended that all countries stop vaccinating for smallpox. In 1980, WHO also recommended that the remaining virus samples be transferred to two WHO laboratories for storage. Those laboratories were the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, and a laboratory in Russia. Russia, however, started a program to produce the smallpox virus in mass quantities, specifically for bombs and other weaponry.

BBC - Drama - Smallpox Information on the making of the show, as well as facts and background about the disease, credits, and character profiles. http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/smallpox2002/

Extractions: Subscribe now >> Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have been studying vaccinia virus, which makes up the smallpox vaccine, for years as a way of understanding how viruses and vaccines work at the cellular level. That research, funded largely by the federal government, may lead to advances in preventing and treating smallpox, which could have ramifications in times of bioterrorism. Vaccinia as Smallpox Vaccine Vaccinia virus was one of the first vaccines ever developed. Smallpox had killed hundreds of millions of people through the centuries, but in the late 1700s medical practitioners noticed that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox were immune to smallpox. They began taking cowpox from cows and scratching it into the arms of people to protect them against smallpox. At some point, cowpox virus was replaced by vaccinia virus, which is 90% identical to smallpox but only rarely causes health problems. Modern public health systems worldwide joined in a campaign to vaccinate populations against smallpox, and the dread disease was eradicated globally by the 1970s, at which point vaccination against the disease was discontinued. However, it is theoretically possible that a smallpox-like virus could re-emerge in nature as a result of the many poxviruses that exist in animal species. Furthermore, laboratories in the US and former Soviet Union are known to have stocks of the virus, perhaps refined as weapons. Other nations, potentially some that support terrorism, may also have stores of weaponized smallpox or the ability to produce it. Though unlikely, a smallpox attack would be highly contagious and could overwhelm communities if it occurs.

HHS - Smallpox Home page for all smallpox information from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Serivces. Includes basic information as well as information for health http://tmsyn.an.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools LOS ANGELES, California (AP) Doctors in California are trying to determine how an adult's eye became infected with the same virus used in the military's smallpox vaccination program. The patient, who has not been identified, had been in close contact with someone who had been inoculated, health officials said. However, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Los Angeles County's director of public health, said it remained unclear exactly how the patient became infected. The vaccine is made with a live virus that can be spread by touching a vaccination site before it has healed or by touching bandages, clothing or other material contaminated with the live virus. "We really don't know how it happened it could have happened in a variety of ways," Fielding said. "What's important is they had direct contact with the person, rather than this being something that was just in the air." Public health officials have declined to release the patient's gender or age, but have said the patient's condition was improving.